My Identity

My semester one project has been an exploration of my identity through cathartic action, humour and the presence of the body. Materially, I have focused primarily on digital manipulations, text, humour and isolated objects of the everyday. Text and language have been manipulated throughout the project as I explored humour and my voice in response to the duality and innuendo of the English language. Observational humour, particularly, become more prevalent in my practice as a means of exploring the obvious and absurd.
The cathartic action of releasing anger and creating something productive was a focus for this project and derives from my desire to reduce my anger and move past my own issues.
The interest in my identity has extended into how

The video is presented on a dark monitor positioned on top of a tall plinth with a warm spotlight projecting onto the monitor and plinth, from above. This presentation invites the viewer closer and through it positioning evokes a sense of reverence for the monitor. Subverting the expectation of astonishing art, the viewer is confronted with the notion that the artwork has wasted their time, particularly the longer spent with the work waiting for something to occur. My identity has been explored in this work through the presentation as a solitary assemblage with a deadpan humor. The observational humor, that viewing the work is a waste of time, is emphasized by the small mundane text, left without punctuation, disembodied and easily forgotten. this artwork was a waste of your time explores my isolation and the impact of on my

(on two Bricks) is a sculptural assemblage constructed from a long piece of MDF Board aligned with 2 bricks and positioned on top. The bricks protrude from the sides of the board resting atop which reads ‘I’m building a bridge!’ in black pen. Observational humour is present in this work, through the text, to highlight the act of placing the wood on the bricks, and the humour of its small scale, as well as creating a referential link to the colloquialism of ‘build a bridge and get over it.’. My exploration of cathartic action has meant that I have been attempting to find ways of productively releasing the anger in an attempt to move forward, hence building a ‘bridge’. The presence of the artist is visible through the positioning of the objects and the artists hand in the text. The work’s self-referential nature links to my millennial identity as self-obsessed and presents this through banal objects in an attempt to normalise the